Book chapters
Beesley, T., Pearson, D., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2019). Eye-tracking as a tool for examining cognitive processes. In G. Foster (Ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Pearson, D., Beesley, T., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2019). Getting started with eye-tracking. In G. Foster (Ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Le Pelley, M. E., Griffiths, O., & Beesley, T. (2017). Associative accounts of causal cognition. In M. R. Waldmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Le Pelley, M. E., Beesley, T., & Griffiths, O. (2016). Associative learning and derived attention. In R. A. Murphy, & R. C. Honey (Eds), Wiley Blackwell Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
For copies of more recent papers, please go to my university webpage
Beesley, T., Yun-Tou, Y., & Walsh, J. (in press). Examining the role of depth information in contextual cuing using a virtual reality visual search task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Walker, A. R., Navarro, D. J., Newell, B. R., & Beesley, T. (2022). Protection from uncertainty in the exploration/exploitation trade-off. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48, 547-568.
Luque, D., Molinero, S., Beesley, T., & Vadillo, M.A. (2021). Contextual cuing of visual search does not guide attention automatically in the presence of top-down goals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, 1080-90.
Vadillo, M. A., Giménez-Fernández, T., Beesley, T., Shanks, D. R., & Luque, D. (2021) There is more to contextual cuing than meets the eye: improving visual search without attentional guidance towards predictable target locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, 116-120.
Wills, A. J., Ellett, L., Milton, F.N., Croft, G., & Beesley, T. (2020). A dimensional-summation account of polymorphous concept learning. Learning and Behavior, 44, 68-83.
Newman, V. E., Liddell, B. J., Beesley, T., & Most, S. B. (2020). Failures of executive function when at a height: Negative height-related appraisals are associated with poor executive function during a virtual height stressor. Acta Psychologica, 203, 102984.
Luque, D., Molinero, S., Jevtović, M., & Beesley, T. (2020). Testing the automaticity of an attentional bias towards predictive cues in human associative learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 762-780.
Walker, A. R., Luque, D., Le Pelley, M. E., & Beesley, T. (2019). The role of uncertainty in attentional and choice exploration. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 1911–1916
Don, H. J., Beesley, T., & Livesey, E. J. (2019). Learned predictiveness models predict opposite attention biases in the inverse base-rate effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45, 143-162.
Mifsud, N., Beesley, T., Watson, T. L., Elijah, R. B., Sharp, T. S., & Whitford, T. J. (in press). Attenuation of Visual Evoked Potentials for Hand and Eye-Initiated Sounds. Cognition.
Griffiths, O., Erlinger, M., Beesley, T., & Le Pelley, M. E. (in press). Outcome predictability biases cued search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
Easdale, L. E., Le Pelley, M. E., & Beesley, T. (in press). The onset of uncertainty facilitates the learning of new associations by increasing attention to cues. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Beesley, T., Hanafi, G., Vadillo, M. A., Shanks, D. R., & Livesey, E. J. (2018). Overt attention in contextual cuing of visual search is driven by the attentional set, but not by the predictiveness of distractors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 44, 707-21.
Kennedy, B., Pearson, D., Sutton, D. J., Beesley, T., & Most, S. B. (2018). Spatiotemporal competition and task-relevance shape the spatial distribution of emotional interference during rapid visual processing: Evidence from gaze-contingent eye-tracking. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 80, 426-438.
Luque, D., Morris, R., Beesley, T., Jack, B. N., Griffiths, O., Whitford, T., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2017). Goal-directed and habit-like modulations of stimulus processing during reinforcement learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 3009-3017.
Luque, D., Vadillo, M. A., Le Pelley, M. E., & Beesley, T. (2017). Prediction and uncertainty: Examining controlled and automatic components of learned attentional biases. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 1485-1503.
Le Pelley, M. E., Mitchell, C. J., Beesley, T., George, D. N., Wills, A., J. (2016). Attention and associative learning in humans: an integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 1111-1140.
Beesley, T., Vadillo, M. A., Pearson, D., & Shanks, D. R. (2016). Configural learning in contextual cuing of visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 1173-1185.
Lee, J. C., Beesley, T., & Livesey, E. J. (2016). Sequential effects and sequence learning in a three-choice serial reaction time task. Acta Psychologica, 170, 168-176.
Mifsud, N. G., Beesley, T., Watson, T., Whitford, T. J. (2016). Auditory N1 attenuation for sounds initiated by hand and eye actions. Biological Psychology, 120, 61-68.
Beesley, T., Nguyen, K. P., Pearson, D., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2015). Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues during human associative learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 2175-2199.
Beesley, T., Pearson, D., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2015). Implicit learning of gaze-contingent events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 800-807.
Vadillo, M. A., Street, C. N. H., Beesley, T., & Shanks, D. R. (2015). A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 1365-76.
Beesley, T., Vadillo, M. A., Pearson, D., & Shanks, D. R. (2015). Pre-exposure of repeated search configurations facilitates subsequent contextual cuing of visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 41, 346-362.
Le Pelley, M.E., Pearson, D., Griffiths, O., & Beesley, T. (2015) When goals conflict with values: Counterproductive attentional and oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 158-171.
Le Pelley, M.E., Beesley, T., & Griffiths, O. (2014). Relative salience versus relative validity: Cue salience influences blocking in human associative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 40, 116-132.
Beesley, T., & Shanks, D. R. (2012). Investigating cue-competition in contextual cuing of visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 38, 709–725.
Beesley, T., Jones, F. W., & Shanks, D. R. (2012). Out of control: An associative account of congruency effects in sequence learning. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 413-421.
Freeman, T., Morgan, C. J. A., Beesley, T., & Curran, H. V. (2012). Drug cue induced overshadowing: selective disruption of natural reward processing by cigarette cues amongst abstinent but not satiated smokers. Psychological Medicine, 42, 161-171
Le Pelley, M.E., Beesley, T., & Griffiths, O. (2011). Overt attention and predictiveness in human contingency learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 220-229.
Beesley, T. & Le Pelley, M. E. (2011). The influence of blocking on overt attention and associability in human learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 114-120.
Beesley, T. & Le Pelley, M. E. (2010). The effect of predictive history on the learning of sub-sequence contingencies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1, 108-135.
Beesley, T., Wills, A. J., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2010). Syntactic transfer in artificial grammar learning. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17, 1, 122-128
Le Pelley, M. E., Reimers, S. J., Calvini, G., Spears, R., Beesley, T., & Murphy, R. A. (2010). Stereotype formation: Biased by association. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 1, 138-161.
Le Pelley, M. E., Suret, M. B., & Beesley, T. (2009). Learned predictiveness effects in humans: A function of learning, performance or both? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 3, 312-327.
Le Pelley, M.E., Beesley, T., & Suret, M.B. (2007). Blocking of human causal learning involves learned changes in stimulus processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1468 – 1476.
Haslam, C., Gilroy, D., Black, S., & Beesley, T. (2006). How successful is errorless learning in supporting memory for high and low-level knowledge in dementia? Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 16, 505-36.
Conference proceedings
Walker, A. R., Le Pelley, M. E., & Beesley, T. (2017). Exploitative and Exploratory Attention in a Four-Armed Bandit Task. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3484-3489). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Le Pelley, M. E., Suret, M. B., & Beesley, T. (2006). The locus of learned predictiveness effects in human learning. Proceedings of AISB ’06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (pp. 2899-2904). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Journal articles in preparation or submitted
Liddell, B. J., Newman, V. E., Beesley, T., & Bryant, R. A. Self-construal influences on threat perception and memory. Under review at Motivation and Emotion.
Newman, V. E., Liddell, B. J., Beesley, T., & Most, S. B. Failures of attention when high: Fear of heights is associated with poor executive control during a virtual height stressor. Under review at Attention, Perception and Psychophysics.
Don, H. J., Beesley, T., & Livesey, E. J. Pre-Decision and Post-Feedback Attention in the Inverse Base-Rate Effect. Manuscript in preparation.
Beesley, T., Molinero, S., Pearson, D., & Luque, D. Attentional capture by predictive stimuli occurs automatically in the presence of controlled processes. Manuscript in preparation.
Walker, A., Le Pelley, M. E., Luque, D., & Beesley, T. Uncertainty and exploration: an examination of the attentional components of reinforcement learning. Manuscript in preparation.
Walker, A. R., Navarro, D. J., Newell, B. R., Baz, N. J., & Beesley, T. Protection from uncertainty in the exploration/exploitation trade-off. In preparation.
Recent external presentations
Control and automaticity in attentional biases to predictive cues. Annual Conference of the Australian Learning Group, Australia. July 2017.
The effect of reward on implicit learning of gaze-contingent events. Symposium on Selective Attention and Individual Differences in Motivation and Emotion (Chair Dr. Steve Most), Experimental Psychology Conference, Australia. April 2017.
Pros and cons of using immersive virtual reality in experimental psychology. Invited presentation at a Workshop on New Frontiers in Behavioral Research: Perspectives from Neuroscience and New Technologies. UNSW Business School, Sydney, November, 2016.
Attentional biases in human associative learning. Invited colloquium presentation at the University of Sydney, Australia. September, 2016.
Attentional biases in human associative learning. Invited colloquium presentation at the University of Nottingham, UK. August, 2016.
The role of uncertainty in human associative learning and attention. 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan. July, 2016.
Attentional processing of stimulus-response-outcome chains as a function of psychopathic traits. Invited symposium presentation at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan. July, 2016.
The role of uncertainty in human associative learning and attention. Joint meeting of the International Society for Comparative Psychology and the Australian Learning Group, Sydney, Australia. July, 2016
The unconscious mind: a modern view of human learning. Invited presentation at the Biology Teachers’ Conference, UNSW Museum of Human Disease. April, 2016.
Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues: the role of automatic and controlled processes in learnt attentional biases. Annual Conference of the Australian Learning Group, Katoomba, Sydney, Australia. July 2015.
Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues: the role of automatic and controlled processes in learnt attentional biases. Associative Learning Symposium XIX, Gregynog Hall, Wales. April 2015.
Uncertainty determines the attention paid to cues during human associative learning. Summer workshop of the Australian Learning Group. December 2014.
How does uncertainty influence attention during human associative learning. Associative Learning Symposium XVIII, Gregynog Hall, Wales. April 2014.
Gaze-contingent cuing in the absence of awareness. Associative Learning Symposium XVIII, Gregynog Hall, Wales. April 2014.
Gaze-contingent cuing in the absence of awareness. Summer workshop of the Australian Learning Group. December 2013
How does uncertainty influence attention during human associative learning. Annual Conference of the Australian Learning Group, Hunter Valley, Sydney, Australia. July 2013.
The role of within-event learning in contextual cuing of visual search. Associative Learning Symposium XVII, Gregynog Hall, Wales. April 2013.
Attention, associability and uncertainty. Experimental Psychology Conference. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. April 2012.
Investigating cue-competition in contextual cuing of visual search. Experimental Psychology Conference. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. April 2012.